Smallpeeps doing the Crystal Fandango. Back on wax with three fresh tracks that were well tested on the road for quite a while - and it was about time to put out this groover. As always it comes with full cover artwork by Stefan Marx.

Smallpeople (Julius Steinhoff and Just von Ahlefeld) follow up the In the Jungle EP (RB 039EP), released on Gerd Janson's Running Back imprint in 2013, with another package of sound-seducing delights. With three essential tracks strictly for the beloved dancefloor, Lowrider Anarchy begins 2015 and commemorates it as the tenth year of Smallville Records, celebrating a decade of putting the magic into house music.

Julius Steinhoff and Just von Ahlefeld aka Smallpeople make the In the Jungle EP a pleasant trip into the realms of a sound that isn't all about chord stereotypes. "Nofretete" opens this reign of spellbinding tracks with hints of acid house, paradisiac breakdowns and finally, heavenly salvation. "Ninja Restaurant" and "In the Jungle" are its tougher siblings between metaphysical rave signals and Windy City rhythm box kung-fu plus hidden locked grooves. Hypno house for the young and the young at heart.

"It would be a waltz to call Salty Days just a treaty of deep house. But it is much more than just that. The co-owners of Hamburg's most gentle record store and label Smallville -- Just von Ahlefeld and Julius Steinhoff aka Smallpeople -- wouldn't be the romanticists they are, if it were that simple. The debut album from Smallpeople not only honors and delves into a sound that already peaked some 15 years ago, it also hones and elevates it, without ever falling into the Reynoldsmania trap or being old gold retold. And this is all oh-so-clear from the very start: the fine flutes of 'When It's There' go straight to your heart and they do so without any self-mockery or hipster smiles as much as the gasping 303-sounds, chirping birds and healing DX-like bass sounds a few tracks later do. 'Salty Days' -- an allusion not to grim times, but to a certain member's adoration for the crystalline mineral -- is blessed with a coherence and tradition that isn't leaden and a feeling that is pure. Like a distillate of U.S. innovations and the European backfire on it, Smallpeople tell their personal love story and jump to their own conclusions. 'Move With Your Vision' and 'Black Ice' both concentrate the form and content of this album: house music that knows its roots, past and classicism, but is made with the minds and means of today. In the '90s there was the saying that it's impossible to create an album consisting of house music and house music only (those dreary downbeat experiments still haunt us to this day). Salty Days is an ideal that belies that statement." --Gerd Janson

Gatefold 2LP version. "It would be a waltz to call Salty Days just a treaty of deep house. But it is much more than just that. The co-owners of Hamburg's most gentle record store and label Smallville -- Just von Ahlefeld and Julius Steinhoff aka Smallpeople -- wouldn't be the romanticists they are, if it were that simple. The debut album from Smallpeople not only honors and delves into a sound that already peaked some 15 years ago, it also hones and elevates it, without ever falling into the Reynoldsmania trap or being old gold retold. And this is all oh-so-clear from the very start: the fine flutes of 'When It's There' go straight to your heart and they do so without any self-mockery or hipster smiles as much as the gasping 303-sounds, chirping birds and healing DX-like bass sounds a few tracks later do. 'Salty Days' -- an allusion not to grim times, but to a certain member's adoration for the crystalline mineral -- is blessed with a coherence and tradition that isn't leaden and a feeling that is pure. Like a distillate of U.S. innovations and the European backfire on it, Smallpeople tell their personal love story and jump to their own conclusions. 'Move With Your Vision' and 'Black Ice' both concentrate the form and content of this album: house music that knows its roots, past and classicism, but is made with the minds and means of today. In the '90s there was the saying that it's impossible to create an album consisting of house music and house music only (those dreary downbeat experiments still haunt us to this day). Salty Days is an ideal that belies that statement." --Gerd Janson

Dionne and Julius Steinhoff had an enormous success with their Meadows EP together with Christopher Rau on Smallville. That Smallpeople issue has been celebrated by all the deep house buddies such as Fred P, Jus Ed, DJ Koze and Lawrence, MCDE, XDB, RNDM, etc., and it was also included on some great compilations. Running the Smallville label and shop in Hamburg, inviting the who's-who of house music to the clubs, Smallpeople present three heavenly tunes to warm hearts and dancefloors.

From the great success of Smallville's first label compilation And Suddenly It's Morning (SMALL 002CD), a new deep house collective evolved: The Smallpeople aka Dionne, Steinhoff & Hammouda, Jacques Le Bon and Christopher Rau. Hanging at their record store, DJing together and exchanging beats and samples made the lovely Hamburg house gang around Smallville owners Julius Steinhoff and Just von Ahlefeld (aka Dionne) a new source of deepest club culture.